Heart in a Cage

was no place to practice. The batting cage was a chest high jungle of weeds imprisoned by chain link fence. The school saw no point in restoring it, and everyone clearly understood the message that baseball and its players just weren’t worth the effort. Everyone, that is, except for me and a handful of my teammates. We would not let them determine our worth. One summer’s day in 2014, I borrowed my neighbor’s lawn mower and met my teammates at the batting cage. I began mowing down the weeds, while

Three girls named Casey (an outcast), Claire and Marcia were kidnapped in the car of Marcia’s Dad, after a Lunch Party. A guy named “Dennis” who appeared to be one of the other 23 personalities that Kevin Wendell Crumb (the owner of the body and a victim of a child abused suffered from Multiple Personality/Dissociative Identity Disorder), was their kidnapper. Being held as captives, the 3 girls got confused every time the kidnapper goes to their room wearing a different kind of outfits and by acting

It is difficult to even begin this letter, little sister, because I simply don’t know where to start. We have been through plenty of trials and tribulations - and I know very well how mature you are for your young age - but there remain some pieces of the story that you don’t know of. I am not here to tell you of them, but there are some things that are impossible to understand without an outside nudge, and I hope that in doing this you will come to accept the things I tell you, so that when certain

“Mother to Son.” Robert Frost explains how the decisions we make should come from our minds and not someone elses.To everyone who makes the decisions that comes from their heart, will have a better outcome in the end if only they try harder. In Maya Angelou’s poem, “Caged Bird”, She explains how a bird is trapped inside of a cage and can not escape from thick metal bars that hold it back. It imagines and signs of having freedom. People believe this is about a bird, but what if it isn’t. I believe

Finally, Siddhartha leaves the city due to a dream he had. In this dream, “this bird, which usually sang in the morning, became mute, and as this surprised him, he went up to the cage and looked inside. The little bird was dead... and then he threw it away on the road, and at the same moment he was horrified and his heart ached as if he had thrown away... all that was good and of value in himself”(Hesse 82). This dream showed Siddhartha that if he stayed in the city he would die and never reach enlightenment

safety of her gilded cage, only to find that death is her only salvation. In the 1800’s the main role in society for a female was to be a wife and mother, women at this time were the property of their husbands and had little say in anything. Which for Edna was the opposite of what she wanted, she wanted to be free from these responsibilities and to live her own life. Although Edna is not a victim in the role society has chosen for her, she freely walked into her gilded cage and into the role of

nothing but a disguise – a disguise of hurtful truths that hid behind faces of African-Americans and that is not the way to live. As communicated through the people, African-Americans wore masks that grin and smile but behind all those grins and smiles, hearts are torn and souls miserably tortured. Furthermore, the speaker tells us that wearer of the mask wants freedom from the people who are full of guile and force them to wear mask just to lie. They need to become free from all this mistreatment and discrimination

The day began with an abrupt start. My alarm went off, and I was wondering to myself why I had set it to wake me up so early. I then remembered, today was the day I was finally able to meet and take home my new chinchilla named Luna. On the way to the home that had my soon to be chinchilla, me and my father stopped for breakfast at Chick-Fil-A. When we arrived at the house, I stood there for about five seconds before knocking on the door. They didn’t answer at first, so I knocked again, harder,

had used the puppies for additional income or as a cash crop, which resulted in the first puppy business. The farmers housed the puppies mostly in chicken coops or rabbit hutches. The farmers also would use things like old refrigerators and rabbit cages to put the puppies in. Most of the veterinarian care and food nutrition were not available to the puppies. “When the 1960’s came along a concern about the pet store happened, mainly because the puppies were being sold from the puppy

she almost was parallelized”. I thought to myself while my heart dropped “ Nothing would be good today”